Earthquake
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i was in a 6.8 in japan. scary for the first earthquake i've ever experienced but no significant losses. at first i though it was a low flying f-16 at full throttle. the pilots aren't supposed to do that but had been known to at other bases i'd been at. but when the sound didn't stop and rumbling turned to violent shaking and my bed slid around the floor bringing me out of a half sleep i realized what was happening. i don't know what the actual magnitude was in my area though. i was about 40 kilometers from the epicenter or maybe it was 40 miles.
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Kublai said:
TMI.
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Kublai said:
That explains the odor
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Orpheo said:
Roermond, April 13th, 1992: 5.8...
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I used to live in a basement apartment in Seattle. One day after work I was cranking my stereo, relaxing with some Dutch herbs, and I heard what I thought was my landlord banging on the floor upstairs. I figured my music was too loud, so I shut it off. The banging continued, I thought maybe he was upset about the Dutch herbs. I figured I better open the window to air the place out, and I notice that the basement casement window was going from rectangle to trapezoid and back again, and only then did I realize it was an earthquake. I'm exaggerating a bit--I realized it was a quake pretty quickly--but I did think at first it was my landlord upstairs.
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We had a 6.6 here in Japan, in my area, a few months ago. It was like 5:07am or something. My bedroom is on the second floor of my home and anyone that knows anything about quakes knows that the shake is intensified the higher you go. 2nd floor is bad enough for me. The place was rocking back and forth and my wife was screaming bloody murder "OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!!!" I think her screaming scared me more than the quake. Waking up to something like that is really unsettling. They've been predicting a quake for our area for more than 40 years now. When it hits it's supposed to be up in the upper 7's and possibly even 8. They're guessing about 60,000 could die. Doesn't make me feel to good knowing we're sitting on something like that right out here in the bay but what can you do? Just hope me and mine aren't in the death or seriously injured count.
But, for the record, I would trade the tornado season of the mid-western United States for earthquakes in a heartbeat.
This past quake in Chile kind of settled me down a bit though. They had a massive quake but the damage and death count wasn't too terrible. They're prepared for that kind of crap. Japan, especially the area I'm in, is also extra extra prepared for an earthquake. The building codes here are insane......which is a good thing.
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But, for the record, I would trade the tornado season of the mid-western United States for earthquakes in a heartbeat.
This past quake in Chile kind of settled me down a bit though. They had a massive quake but the damage and death count wasn't too terrible. They're prepared for that kind of crap. Japan, especially the area I'm in, is also extra extra prepared for an earthquake. The building codes here are insane......which is a good thing.
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In Australia, we mostly get tremors not earthquakes -or well we at least thought that was the case. We smugly assumed that earthquakes happened elsewhere! Australia has long been considered a very dormant continent.
But in 1989, Newcastle (Australia) was rocked with a 5.6 earthquake that killed 13 people ( I just googled to check the facts :doh
This happened over the Christmas school vacation period, which is our long summer break. I had just started doing work as a security guard, and was given the job of minding a new school in a suburb called Plumpton in Sydney's western suburbs, where things are pretty working class and the long school holidays can have kids doing stupid things. The reason I was at the school was to stop the locals from burning down the place before it had even opened!
When the quake hit it sent a tremor down the coastline. In Plumpton, things kinda just gave a hard quick rock. I was sitting in a chair in a school class room and it felt like a blast had pushed me.... I cursed the kids and went out to look at the damage, but there was none. And the air was very quiet, birds all in the air all over the sky and the horses across the road in a paddock all prancing about. Dogs no where to be seen, people nearby walking to their front gate.
The FM radio station I was listening to, momentarily went off air when I felt the push effect. When I walked back inside after what must've been 30 seconds, the station was playing - believe it or not - "I Feel the Earth Move" by Aretha Franklin and on standby mode...
Newcastle is north of Sydney by about 150 miles or so. It took another 10 - 15 minutes for Sydney to realise that an earthquake had happened and that Newcastle had borne the brunt of it.
Where I live now on the Central Coast I am only about 40 miles away (75 kilometres) from Newcastle. My house wasn't built back then so I do not know what would happen if it got rocked that close to an earthquake.
I think the main worrying thing for Australia is our very close location to where some really big geological activity occurs, in Indonesia. A decent earthquake there, or a volcanic eruption could have some serious implications on Australia. Tsunamis coming in from the Indian or Pacific Oceans also pose a threat. I'd reckon if San Francisco ever gets "The Big One' and California disappears into the Pacific ( as some people have mentioned over the years) Australia's most populated coastline (East Coast) would have to buckle down for a huge tsunami on the other side of that Ocean! A decent tsunami on our Eastern coast would cause considerable damage.
But in 1989, Newcastle (Australia) was rocked with a 5.6 earthquake that killed 13 people ( I just googled to check the facts :doh
This happened over the Christmas school vacation period, which is our long summer break. I had just started doing work as a security guard, and was given the job of minding a new school in a suburb called Plumpton in Sydney's western suburbs, where things are pretty working class and the long school holidays can have kids doing stupid things. The reason I was at the school was to stop the locals from burning down the place before it had even opened!
When the quake hit it sent a tremor down the coastline. In Plumpton, things kinda just gave a hard quick rock. I was sitting in a chair in a school class room and it felt like a blast had pushed me.... I cursed the kids and went out to look at the damage, but there was none. And the air was very quiet, birds all in the air all over the sky and the horses across the road in a paddock all prancing about. Dogs no where to be seen, people nearby walking to their front gate.
The FM radio station I was listening to, momentarily went off air when I felt the push effect. When I walked back inside after what must've been 30 seconds, the station was playing - believe it or not - "I Feel the Earth Move" by Aretha Franklin and on standby mode...
Newcastle is north of Sydney by about 150 miles or so. It took another 10 - 15 minutes for Sydney to realise that an earthquake had happened and that Newcastle had borne the brunt of it.
Where I live now on the Central Coast I am only about 40 miles away (75 kilometres) from Newcastle. My house wasn't built back then so I do not know what would happen if it got rocked that close to an earthquake.
I think the main worrying thing for Australia is our very close location to where some really big geological activity occurs, in Indonesia. A decent earthquake there, or a volcanic eruption could have some serious implications on Australia. Tsunamis coming in from the Indian or Pacific Oceans also pose a threat. I'd reckon if San Francisco ever gets "The Big One' and California disappears into the Pacific ( as some people have mentioned over the years) Australia's most populated coastline (East Coast) would have to buckle down for a huge tsunami on the other side of that Ocean! A decent tsunami on our Eastern coast would cause considerable damage.
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OzziePete said:
Nice! That song will forever be linked with earthquakes. I can't hear it without thinking of a childhood experience.
When I was a wee impressionable boy, our local science museum (aimed at children) used to have an earthquake simulator, a platform of about 2 meters square with some fake "walls" that had ordinary household items attached to them. When the contraption was activated, it started playing the first 20 seconds of THAT SAME SONG before shaking violently, with all passengers inside it. So now every time I hear that song, I expect to feel the vibrations of the earthquake simulator and the deafening clatter of the objects on the "walls". It's a bit disconcerting without the sensations!
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